Introduction: puzzles of political economy -- Social protection by other means: Australia's strategy of coping with external vulnerability -- Learning from catastrophes: West Germany's public policy -- Israel's dpmestic policy regime: Zionism, dualism and the rise of capital -- Japan's creative conservatism: continuity under challenge -- 'Pillarization' and 'Popular movements': two variants of welfare state capitalism: the Netherlands and Sweden -- The United Kingdom: paradoxes of an ungrounded statism -- Taking exception: explaining the distinctiveness of American public policies in the last century

1. Policy sciences
2. Political planning
3. Comparative government